524 So. 2d 481 - State v. Batista’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[N]o resident of the unlocked and unsecured premises [of the] apartment building in the present case could have had [...] a reasonable expectation [to privacy] in shared areas”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Titus v. State · Pueblo v. Ortiz Rodriguez

2. “"Contrary to the trial court's view, it is legally inconsequential — although perhaps emotionally provocative — that the seizing police officers entered the grounds of the thirty-unit apartment building by scaling a six-foot high wall at the rear of the property, since it plainly appears from a fair reading of the record that the general public had unimpeded access to the building through the front entrance to the property."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Titus v. State

3. “even assuming, arguendo, that a resident... may have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the common entries, hallways, and spaces of a locked or otherwise secured apartment building, no resident of the unlocked and unsecured premises [of the] apartment building in the present case could have had such a reasonable expectation in those shared areas.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 707 So. 2d 706 - State v. Titus